· Private foundation
Edwards Family Cjlj Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $87k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $60,000 |
| LAKE FOREST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $26,638 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN | $10,000 |
| READING POWER INC | $3,000 |
| DAVIDSON COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| ST SIMONS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| MISERICORDIA HEART OF MERCY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| BOYSGIRLS CLUB | $3,000 |
| ST SIMONS LAND TRUST | $3,000 |
| GLASA | $2,500 |
| PADS LAKE COUNTY | $2,500 |
| LAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CIT FDN | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Edwards Family Cjlj Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 76%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RURush University Medical Center7× · 2018–2024 · $517k · revenue +39%
Davidson College4× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +52%- RPREADING POWER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- UCUM Carey School of Lawone grant, 2020 · $25k
- LCLF COUMMUNITY DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $2k
- MHMISERICORDIA HEART OF MERCY FOUNDATone grant, 2023 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
The mission of lakewood health system is to provide quality, personalized healthcare for a lifetime.
Lakeshore community health care provides access to comprehensive, integrated health care, regardless of ability to pay, eliminating health disparities among the underserved.
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.
Our goal is to provide our tenants with a gracious lifestyle in a safe, secure, residential setting. we will promote programs which encourage you to practice a healthy lifestyle. we will treat those we serve with dignity and respect. your…
Our mission is to enrich the lives of older adults through gracious retirement living, spiritual growth, cultural and educational opportunities and health care services.
The mission of lakeshore is to enhance the ability of persons with mental and physical disabilities to live as independently as possible through acquisition of skills and utilization of services that promote each individual's self…
Path makes good health more accessible in 70+ countries by improving the health care people receive, creating affordable health products, and advancing effective health policies.
To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.
To provide assisted living, nursing faciliities, and services for the elderly
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Capitol lakes is a premier continuing care retirement community dedicated to enriching lives.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds READING POWER INC ↗
- Who funds ST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PADS Lake County Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds TOUCH HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds CAREER RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PADS OF ELGIN INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Karen R & John T Crotty Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edwards Family Cjlj Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edwards Family Cjlj Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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